Alison Bird Clinical Hypnotherapy

07/08/2024

- Many of us have been teaching it for years, well before it became a "trend"! 😁

07/05/2024

An excerpt from ‘Why Diets Make us Fat” by neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt:

"The diet industry has adopted a strategy of taking credit for weight loss and then blaming the predictable regain on individual lack of willpower when it actually results from the brain’s energy-balance system working correctly to reverse weight loss. If the industry acknowledged that increased hunger, decreased metabolism, and intense psychological distress are normal responses to substantial weight loss, clinics would face a huge marketing disadvantage. So they don’t. Ignoring the problem, of course, doesn’t make it go away, but it does allow diet clinics to profit from a steady supply of repeat customers and to sell lifetime memberships with a straight face. A better question is why so many of us put ourselves through this process again and again. We suffer through hunger and puff away at the treadmill, only to see our efforts wasted as our brains win another round in this long struggle, then meekly accept the judgement that this outcome is our own fault. Dieting teaches us to ignore the body’s signals of hunger, which leads most people to overeat when the opportunity arises. Long-term deprivation causes binge eating in susceptible people, thus causing the weight gain that diets were intended to cure. Choosing instead to practise mindful eating puts the energy-balance system back in control, freeing us to focus our willpower on more important priorities."

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Hypnotherapy can help you to de-hypnotise from diet culture and reconnect with a more natural way of eating.

09/04/2024

This should be an interesting listen.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y27g?fbclid=IwAR3VzvpRUqej17u-ouM_-EFesJ9ylv5fkOxFq_hdXXY06g7MsOtWcAYWX8E

Could leading weight loss company Slimming World be fuelling eating disorders?

30/01/2024

Laughter is good, harmless (unless you have stitches!) medicine 💊.

29/01/2024

Va**ng is being promoted as "safer" than smoking. Less dangerous doesn't mean safer.

29/01/2024

There was a feature on BBC Morning Live today about "ditching the diets". Both the doctor and the counsellor reiterated everything that I have been saying and doing with my weight loss clients over the past 20 years! The techniques they touched upon are the very same ones we work with in my sessions with clients. It does feel good not to be fighting a lone battle against the diet industry (which relies upon repeat business.....) 🙂

04/04/2023

A beautiful 28 year old woman has died in Turkey after a gastric band operation. She was not "obese". She was not even "fat". She was obviously dissatisfied with her body because our culture dictates that we should always be striving for better. Apparently seven British patients died last month undergoing the same operation. We need to work on self-esteem, not weight.

13/07/2021

WEIGHT LOSS IS NOT ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT, IT'S ABOUT FOCUSING ON THE RIGHT THINGS. HYPNOTHERAPY CAN HELP.

If you focus on the problem (excess weight), you ATTRACT the problem (even more excess weight). If you focus on the SOLUTION (health and improved fitness), you ATTRACT the solution (more fitness, and the natural reduction in weight that comes with it).

Hypnotherapy can help you focus on the right things so that permanent weight loss is a happy side effect. Please get in touch with me if you'd like to find out more.

24/11/2020

I use BWRT to help people with overeating, bad habits, phobias, and all kinds of mind-related issues, often in as few as one to three sessions. This lady is delighted, as you can see. If you'd like to find out more, please just message me.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=237784661015836

28/07/2020

The diet industry has created a monster.

We need to take on the food and weight-loss industries, says psychotherapist and social critic Susie Orbach

27/07/2020

Instead of yet more "fat shaming" from the government, and pressure to diet (which never works long term, and leads to eating disorders, self-hatred, and a bad relationship with food), it might've been better to promote a drive towards good lung health. If we're encouraged to look after our lungs, we'll become stronger overall and weight loss will be a happy side effect.